Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what of the owners, the Centralia Coal Co.? Could it be possible that they too are somewhat at fault? After all, who knew better than they the condition and safety of the mine? Who, ultimately, gives the go-ahead signal to the miners to work a certain mine...
...week's end, somewhat heartened by financial aid from the C.I.O. and A.F.L., N.F.T.W. President Joseph Beirne appealed to the White House for settlement help. He admitted to newsmen: "If we don't settle by Monday, our people will still be out on strike, but some of them may want to go back to work...
...delicate Continental wines of which there are "only imitations in this country but for one I have discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York State." Those who meet him and withdraw at an apparent forbidding austerity soon learn that Gropius possesses a keen sense of humor (hampered somewhat by an incomplete appreciation of American slang) and the greatest warmth for people who are young-in years or in ideas. At Robinson Hall his carefully screened graduate students from the four corners of the earth hold him in something close to worship. One Czech girl exploded...
Space has been found inadequate outside the dining halls in Lowell, Winthrop, and Kirkland Houses. Dunster, Leverett, and Eliot are somewhat better equipped to handle sales and solicitation, but only Adams' facilities are entirely satisfactory...
...carried to over-extended lengths by the actors of "Ivan The Terrible." Therefore the character development of Ivan, for example, beset by traitor boyar noblemen within his court and hosts of foes without, progresses on a very unrefined level, and a few intimate glimpses fail to humanize a somewhat stereotyped symbol. Contemporary political significance, injected into the concluding scene when Ivan successfully turns to his people for support against his treacherous lieutenants, does unnecessary violence to subtlety for the sake of propaganda...